Contest runs 10 nights between Thursday, Jan 28 and Thursday April 1, 2010, with three bands a night playing on the hour. Finale will be at the Playing Field, Saturday, Jun 12, 2010. Fifteen bands will participate in the contest, and probably four bands will play the finale. Swag and contest prizes to the winners will be annouced at a later date, but will include a substabcial gift certifacate for recording time, and/or equiptment.

For more info, or to apply for a spot, please contact MusicRVA at webmaster@musicrva.zzn.com but preferrably join our network a http://musicrva.net and contact me there. The MusicRVA Netwrok is where the hub for bookings resides.

If you ever wanted to write your thoughts or experiences on music, bands, shows or venues, this is the time folks!
MusicRVA and Sojournstar Music articles are now being blasted across the internet automatically to hundreds of sites for publications.

Our writer Crystal Snyder is the first of our lucky writers to get her articles blasted, which will give her added authority as an author. Not to mention the high visibilty this gives her, the MusicRVA sites AND the bands and venues we write about.

I have been working hard behind the scenes lately on many more great ways to put us all on the map, and your support of the site has helped much of it happen and I thank you all dearly. So, if you want to write for MRVA and help put your favorites and your local scene on the map, join the network at <a href="http://www.musicrva.net">MusicRVA.Net</a> and drop me a line, or if you are really serious about becomeing a MusicRVA writer, fill out the write form at <a href="http://www.musicrva.c